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List:       mozilla-crypto
Subject:    Re: The expiration of all keyed encryption will happen before RSA patents expire.
From:       Jared Showalter <jareds () home ! REMOVETHIS ! com>
Date:       1998-03-31 22:01:55
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Tom Holroyd wrote:
> 
[snip]
> 
> The implementation must be careful, however, to prevent a combinatorial
> attack on short messages in which all packet sequences are checked. This
> danger is nonexistent for a long message with many packets, but for a
> short message like a credit card number you would still need to have a
> large number of short packets, depending of course on how the packager
> works.

Could you elaborate?

Jared Showalter

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